Chapter 508 Alliance Meeting (2)
PS: Thank you here for the reward of "I am the wilderness". I will continue to work hard next time~
"Okay, OK, please wait until the meeting is over, please solve the problem yourself." At this time, Jani Agnelli spoke. Although he had given up the position of chairman of Juventus to his younger brother Umberto Agnelli, since the old man wanted to attend the meeting in person, naturally no one in Juventus and the Agnelli family dared to go against his opinion. "Now, let's get back to the topic. I am already a 75-year-old man. If you continue to argue like this, my body will not be able to stand it."
The Agnelli family is known as the uncrowned king of Italy. As the leader of the family, Jani Agnelli's words naturally have enough weight. As soon as the old man spoke, Moratti and Cranioti immediately became honest. Although they dislike Juventus, they dare not make rash decisions in front of this respected old man.
"Okay, it's finally quiet now." Jani Agnelli patted his seat with satisfaction, turned his head to Zhuang Mingge and said, "Boy Antonio, since you have seen the shortcomings of this signing limit, you must have already had a solution?"
"Yes, Grandpa Jani." In front of the old man who "sneeze, the whole of Italy will shake three times", Zhuang Mingge naturally immediately responded respectfully, "I think the current limit on introducing foreign players in the Serie A league every year should be lifted, otherwise, there would be no way to talk about anything."
"Oh? Of course, after you said that just now, I think the people in this room would not agree to the Football Association's continued reservation of such a signing policy." Hearing Zhuang Mingge's words, Jani Agnelli was not surprised. After all, the other party had listed the various disadvantages of this set of measures just now, so there was no need to continue to retain them. "So, what is the way you plan to replace the current signing system?"
"In this regard, I think we should learn from the practices of the Spanish Football Association and the German Football Association." Zhuang Mingge, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately replied, "The football associations of these two countries have made rigid requirements for each team participating in the top league of the season, stipulating that the number of non-European players in each team must not exceed five, and the additional non-European foreign players are not qualified to participate in the league matches of the season."
"Well, this is a good idea." Although Jani Agnelli is old, he is not confused. As the saying goes, people are old and ghosts are old and spirits. Old Agnelli only thinks of the advantages of this policy after a little change of mind. "Leave a quota for non-European players for each team, so that each club has enough space to adjust the team's lineup, and decide their stay and stay based on the performance of each foreign player and the actual situation of the team. Moreover, the players who leave can also free up places for later generations. The team does not have to worry about selling a foreign player and being forced to narrow the selection due to policy restrictions, thus not finding a suitable replacement, or increasing unnecessary expenditure in vain."
"You are worthy of being Grandpa Jani, you are not right at all." Zhuang Mingge praised the other party, and then said, "Take my Fiorentina as an example. This winter, in order to enhance the depth of the forward line, we finally decided to introduce Argentine center Julio Cruise who played in the riverbed at the time. However, because we introduced Redondo, who is also a non-European identity from Real Madrid last summer, the deal almost ran aground. If Redondo had not approved his Spanish nationality application in time, we would have lost this good substitute striker now."
When Zhuang Mingge said these words, except for a few people such as Morati and Old Agnelli, the other participants muttered in their hearts: Your kid is so lucky. It would be fine if you discovered the uncensored jades such as Vieri and Da Inzagi before, just think that we, how can you find players suitable for Fiorentina across half the earth?
Well, let’s not mention these people who are jealous of Zhuang Mingge’s luck, but the topic goes back to the discussion of Serie A policies.
"So, how can we effectively protect local rookies and let them get full training in the top league?" Jani Agnelli narrowed his eyes, making people unable to see what he was thinking at this time. "Even if each team can't have at most five non-EU players as you said, the existence of the Boseman Act still prevents us from running high-level players from other countries in the EU to play in Serie A and impacting the living space of Italian players."
"I have also had corresponding countermeasures in this regard." Speaking of this, Zhuang Mingge secretly said sorry to the German Football Association in his heart. In order to solve the lack of fresh blood in German football, I borrowed it first. "My opinion is that each team must leave a certain number of first-team places for local players and youth training players produced by the club. I think there should be no less than six local players in the first team this season, and at the same time, there should be no less than three youth training players in the first team."
Without waiting for everyone present to express their opinions, Zhuang Mingge continued to speak:
"Here, I want to first determine the concepts of the two terms I mentioned, local players and youth training players. I believe that everyone can understand local players, that is, nationality is Italian players. Of course, I would like to add here that if players with multiple nationalities choose to participate in international competitions for national teams other than Italy, they will not be included in the quota of local players; my definition of youth training players is relatively broad. As long as a player has played in the same club for more than three years before the age of 21, regardless of whether his nationality is Italy or not, he can be regarded as a youth training player of the club."
"I believe everyone knows the reason why I want to define this. If I don't do this, I'm afraid some teams will not be able to gather enough youth training players to enter the first team for some reasons; and this can also give everyone a wider range of choices when training young players and will not be bound to the narrow Apennines."
"Well, Antonio, your idea is very novel." After listening to Zhuang Mingge's statement, Old Agnelli nodded and said, "I think this plan is very good. What do you think?"
Jani Agnelli, the most powerful in Italy, expressed his agreement. What else can others say? They had to nod and agreed to Zhuang Mingge's reform plan.
Chapter completed!